Have mercy on me with such a burden,
Take it away from my heart,
since you have paid the price for it
on the wood [of the cross] with the pains of death
So that I may not with great sorrow
drown in my sins
nor despair for ever.

Especially since I in my mind,
as I have for a long time lamented,
am also a troubled sinner,
who is gnawed by his conscience,
and would willingly in your blood
be washed clean from my sins
like David and Manasseh.